| sandfish (def. 2). |
[sand-fish] 
) -fish, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) -fish⋅es. | 1. | either of two scaleless fishes of the family Trichodontidae, of the North Pacific, that live in sand or mud. |
| 2. | Also called beaked salmon. a fish, Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus, inhabiting the sandy areas of the western Pacific and Indian oceans, having an angular snout with which it burrows into the sand. |
| 3. | belted sandfish. |
| beaked salmon n. See sandfish. |
| sand·fish (sānd'fĭsh') n. pl. sandfish or sand·fish·es
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